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Article: Ride Lonesome
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- Artforum
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- November 1, 2008
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JAMES QUANDT on the films of Lisandro Alonso
SINCE DEBATES OVER AUTEURISM now seem as distant as Madame de Staël, it was hardly noticed at this year's Cannes International Film Festival, even as the Directors' Fortnight celebrated its fortieth birthday, that the politiques monism had created a small crisis. Through caprice, impatience, or sheer fatigue, critics experienced collective irritation with the staunch constancy of several celebrated auteurs. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, even while extending his muted narrative into once unimaginable modes of suspense and melodrama in Three Monkeys, was scorned for relying on his patented long takes and meteorological effects. Jia Zhang-ke alienated some ...